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To separate or disunite; to sunder. It [a word] was divorced from its old sense. Earle.

Pertaining to, or having to do with, teaching. The word of God serveth no otherwise than in the nature of a doctrinal instrument. Hooker.

A word consisting of twelve syllables.

use to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word.

A name given to a pastor of the Reformed Church. The word is also applied locally in the United States, in colloquial speech, to any clergyman.

Relating to, or given by, our Lord; as, the dominical (or Lord's) prayer. Howell. Some words altered in the dominical Gospels. Fuller. Dominical altar (Eccl.), the high altar. -- Dominical letter, the letter which, in almanacs, denotes Sunday, or the Lord's day (dies Domini). The first seven letters of the alphabet ar…

within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.

[Perh. a different word; cf. Totty.] Unsteady in gait; hence, feeble; half-witted. [Eng.]

gether; coupled. [Let] The swan, on still St. Mary's lake, Float double, swan and shadow. Wordsworth.

A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.

A word or words unintentionally doubled or set up a second time.

A word of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. O my dove, . . . let me hear thy voice. Cant. ii. 14. Dove tick (Zoöl.), a mite (Argas reflexus) which infests doves and other birds. -- Soiled dove, a prostitute. [Slang]

great, how plentiful, how rich a dower! Sir J. Davies. Man in his primeval dower arrayed. Wordsworth.

To pull from a sheath, as a sword. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. Ex. xv. 9.

eadful storm. " Dreadful gloom." Milton. For all things are less dreadful than they seem. Wordsworth.

To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!

to hear; to see. To drink the cooler air, Tennyson. My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words Of that tongue's utterance. Shak. Let me . . . drink delicious poison from thy eye. Pope.

s drop balsam." Creech. The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever. Sterne.

, having a thick nap or frieze. [Written also duffle.] Good duffel gray and flannel fine. Wordsworth.

To deprive of sharpness of edge or point. "This . . . dulled their swords." Bacon. Borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Shak.